Energy & Environment

Recently, as part of the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget process, Congressman Doug Lamborn joined dozens of Congressmen in calling for a prohibition on the, "final adoption of the flawed Waters of the US rule by the EPA and the US Army Corps of Engineers." This action would, "have disastrous effects on agriculture, small business, and municipalities across the country. The language of the rule is drafted so vaguely that it encompasses nearly all water sources...including ditches, pipes, farmland ponds [...
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2/26/16 Today, Congressman Doug Lamborn voted for the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act. "This common sense bill defends the Second Amendment and eliminates red tape preventing Americans from using their public lands for recreational purposes like hunting and fishing. Public lands belong to the American people, not to Washington bureaucrats. The SHARE Act helps tip the balance away from Washington DC and back to the citizens where it belongs." - Congressman Doug Lambo...
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"Despite support from a bipartisan majority in both chambers of Congress, the president has vetoed a Senate Resolution overturning the EPA's "waters of the United States rule." The WOTUS rule harms local communities, kills job growth, and strangles states' ability to regulate their own waters by inserting the federal government into every stream, pond, and ditch in America--even on private property. The president's veto is yet another example of his strategy to bypass Congress and instead use ex...
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Today, Congressman Doug Lamborn voted in favor of H.R. 702 to lift America's decades old ban on crude oil exports. "The U.S. is now one of the leading producers of oil in the world and our energy policy must be updated to reflect this new reality. H.R. 702 will unleash the full potential of the American energy revolution by bringing down domestic gas prices, help create a climate for hundreds of thousands of new jobs, and generate an estimated $1.4 billion in profits to the federal government ov...
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9/23/2015 Following the Department of the Interior's announcement on the status of the sage grouse, Congressman Doug Lamborn issued the following statement: "Even though the Department chose not to place the sage grouse on the endangered species list, this bird will still have an adverse impact on the production of American energy. The Obama Administration is still using the sage grouse as an excuse to remove 10 million acres of American energy opportunity from the market. It is profoundly disap...
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